Editing Woodville, Ohio (section)

==History==
Woodville was laid out and [[plat]]ted in 1836. It was named for General [[Amos E. Wood]].<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_rtkyAQAAMAAJ | title=Twentieth Century History of Sandusky County, Ohio and Representative Citizens | publisher=Whipporwill Publications | author=Meek, Basil | year=1909 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_rtkyAQAAMAAJ/page/n331 348]}}</ref>

Woodville was the midway point on the Western Reserve and Maumee Turnpike, which was also known as the "Old Mud Pike" because of the thick mud that often mired animals and vehicles alike.  It was the first permanent route across the Black Swamp.  The toll road connected [[Perrysburg, Ohio|Perrysburg]] with Lower Sandusky, which has since been renamed [[Fremont, Ohio|Fremont]].

[[Image:Old Mud Pike mile marker on U.S. Route 20 in Woodville, Ohio.JPG|thumb|left|The 1842 milestone on the Western Reserve and Maumee Turnpike marks a point 16 miles from Perrysburg and 15 miles from Lower Sandusky (now Fremont).]]
A mile marker from the road remains at 100 East Main Street, in front of the village pharmacy.  Several of the [[milestone]]s are still in place along the {{convert|31|mi|km}} stretch between present day Fremont and Perrysburg.  The route is currently designated [[U.S. Route 20]]. 
Woodville is also the point at which U.S. 20 crosses the [[Portage River (Ohio)|Portage River]].  The former [[Pennsylvania Railroad]] also crossed the Portage River in Woodville.  The line was at one time a main route from [[Toledo, Ohio|Toledo]] to [[Pittsburgh]].

To the north of Woodville lies Woodville Road emanating from Toledo, passes through Genoa, ending in Elmore. It does not pass through Woodville.

A half mile upstream from the highway and the rail bridges lies Trailmarker Park.  This is site of a shallow point in the river where Native Americans routinely crossed the Portage.   A tree that was bent by [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]] to mark the crossing point had a large limb that stretched over the west bank of the river, just south of the Cherry Street bridge.  However, the limb was mistakenly removed by village workers in the 1990s.

[[Ohio State Route 105|State Route 105]] also runs through Woodville.